[elcritch]

Cool, thanks! It looks like the cybertruck does extensively use CAN still. Tesla only talks up Ethernet.

Makes sense, though I’m a bit bummed.

> And if you think about it, you probably don't want your brake-by-wire system to share a bus with your sound system and your trunk latch for obvious reasons.

Sharing a bus for those two wouldn’t make sense. However Ethernet topology wouldn’t preclude having those on separate buses and linked via switches.

Though that’d pose problems with my view above about plugging anything in anywhere. Though it’s really more of a philosophical goal. ;)

[HeyLaughingBoy]

> However Ethernet topology wouldn’t preclude having those on separate buses and linked via switches

The topology might not care, but someone designing a trunk latch that communicates via Ethernet might get a visit from an annoyed representative from Value Engineering.

[elcritch]

Haha touché. However unintuitive as it may seem an ethernet based trunk latch could be overall cheaper from a system level than a straight relay based system or even CAN system.

Especially with the newer two wire ethernet with power via 10BASE-T1S. The connector likely costs more than the ethernet chip, and microprocessors can be had for nickels. So at large manufacturing scale it could easily cost less to share a single ethernet and power line and save on wiring, connector complexity, etc.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

If costs have dropped to the point that Ethernet is less expensive than LIN, it would definitely be a surprise.